LARGE FAMILY TREE, PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT

[Zapata Lerma Gallo y Avellaneda, Josef (et al.):] Memorial ajustado, hecho [...] entre Don Josef Zapata Lerma Gallo y Avellaneda [...] Don Josef Jalon y Guzman [...] Don Pedro Celestino Zorilla [...] Don Joaquin Gallo Martin [...] Don Gregorio de mayorga y Gallo [...] y Doña Casimira Conde de Vega [...] [Madrid], en la imprenta de D. Fermin Taddeo Villalpando 1798.

Unlocated submission in a law suit involving succession to five mayorazgos (estates, entailed to prevent fragmentation) dating from between 1506 and 1599, following the death of their last possessor, Doña Maria Francisca Gallo, Marquesa de Fuentepelayo, in 1784. The large illustrative family tree has 137 names in boxes, and more are added to the diagram in manuscript. Some of the lines between the boxes are added in ink, and if one looks closely one sees that the diagram has been worked over in pencil, with a line drawn alongside a couple of names. The diagram was key evidence or narrative in a (clearly) very complicated family dispute, and shows graphically quite how entangled an inheritance issue can become, if extended for 200 to 300 years!

Details

Folio, 248 pages (i.e. fols. [2] 122), + large fold-out family tree (c.65 x c.99 cms), for which see description above. Mends and discolouration to fold-out at hinge, light browning, slight dustiness, a good copy in contemporary mottled wrappers, slightly rumpled and torn; note on front cover "58" (crossed out), "No. 101", and "Del Mayorazgo de los Gallos”.

Not in CCPB. Not in OCLC. (01/18).